[@Buddha], I do not claim to know, how or why someone would take pride in that as their own - even if not - but the notion I am going with is that to them it feels, or is, personal; I am terrible with people. Apparently it is? Enough so that they went the route of publicness? My personal choice it isn't and wouldn't be unless I felt left with no other option, but that is just me. 

You are correct though that it, it would be [i]more[/i] dignified if it was carried out elsewhere. Is the code itself, barring everything else such as their arrangement and interpretation of it the programmer's? Sure. From what it seems to be was a cut, paste, and imperfect edit. As to if someone else should be irritated, what difference does that really make? I would still stand by the notion of do not use other people's stuff without asking first and foremost.

Does it really matter at this point? I would say so in that I believe the point being two fold; "Do not steal people's stuff, ask them to use it, go with their answer and stick to private channels in doing so." The latter part perhaps being the most notable mention you presented here to me, in that leaves me to wonder why one wouldn't. "Immaturity" perhaps or how I view it as a means to turn the behavior perhaps for good.